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From: drstrip@intvax.UUCP (David R. Strip)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: problem w/dvips54 under msdos
Message-ID: <3742@intvax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 91 04:16:49 GMT
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Org. 1411, Albq, NM
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(OK, shoot me for not following innumerable previous discussions of dvips. I
only just now tried to load it :-( )

I am trying to run dvips54 under ms-dos 3.30 (dvi files generated by
sbtex34). I am using the version that is available already compiled on
simtel20 in the postscript directory (dated Feb 21, I believe and apparently
derived from the emtex distribution). I have modified config.ps to point to
the correct paths, and I am using a plain vanilla laserwriter, so I left
resolution (-D) set to 300. When I run dvips on a simple file (one line of
cmr10 text), and look at the font files it is searching for, the resolutions
are bizarre. At first they were always .../10797/cmr10.pk. I then ran dvips
while I happened to have another program loaded, but had forked back to dos.
Now dvips tried to open fonts like ...\27<three more digits that I
forget>\cmr10.pk. When I killed the program I was running and ran dvips from
the orginal command shell, I got back the original (wierd) font paths.
In addition, no matter what I put for the -D parameter, I got the same font
paths. Any hints?

Also, the supplied config.ps has an "L" parameter that is not documented in
the dvips.tex file.

Another question: when dvips fires up, if you use the -d64 option, you can
see that it is trying to open files with names like lj_something. Are these
emtex font libraries that it is searching for?

Finally, at one point, dvips tried to open cmr10 at 0 pt. What is this?
Is this another symptom of the same problem that caused the wierd
resolutions?

Thanks in advance for any replies and advice. I would really like to get
this thing running, now that I have a ps printer at home.

BTW, the pc is an xt clone with a 286 speedup board, if any of this makes
a difference.

David Strip
drstrip@cs.sandia.gov (never trust the reply to: field.)